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Frames and Connections in the Governance of Global Communications
A Network Study of the Internet Governance Forum
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2012
Summary
The governance of global communications is consolidating as a field where innovative political practices of multi-actor collaboration are being experimented. Within this broad political landscape, the Internet governance domain is emerging as one of the most relevant areas where institutional and non-institutional actors are converging in order to reform collectively governance mechanisms that will determine the future developments of the Internet technology. This book adopts a network approach to study the progressive and collective construction of a new discourse on Internet governance fostered by the realization of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, a new “space for multi-stakeholder policy-dialogue” (WSIS Tunis Agenda 2005, art. 72). Looking both at how semantic and social connections are created in the online and the offline discursive spaces, this book seeks to provide insights on how principles of democratic collaboration between institutional and non-institutional actors are translated into actual political dynamics; on how the global political agenda on the governance of the Internet comes to be shaped thanks to the provision of heterogeneous and sometimes opposite thematic inputs; and, finally, on how the roles of States, intergovernmental bodies, civil society entities in participatory supra-national politics are progressively being (re)defined. Starting form the Internet governance case study, this books aims at providing an alternative approach to the study of supra-national politics as well as of global communication governance processes: one that considers simultaneously contents and processes of political dynamics and examines how immaterial resources, such as information and communication, become a new field for multi-actor politics experiments, conflicts and network construction.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4643-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4645-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
198
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 01. A Background Picture No access Pages 1 - 36
Chapter 02. Investigating Content and Process in Political Dynamics No access Pages 37 - 64
Chapter 03. Introducing the Internet Governance Case No access Pages 65 - 88
Chapter 04. The Internet Governance Online Discursive Space No access Pages 89 - 114
Chapter 05. The Internet Governance Offline Discursive Space No access Pages 115 - 150
Conclusions No access Pages 151 - 162
Appendix: Issue Crawler Working Logic No access Pages 163 - 166
